Supporting device for water bags



pt. 3, 19 i A; c. HOFFMAN 2,213,930 I SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR WATER BAGS Filed Dec. 21, 1958 ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 3, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,213,930 SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR WATER BAGS Application December 21, 1933, Serial No. 247,012

6 Claims.

My present invention relates to a new and simplified form of portable supporting frame for water bags and is particularly designed for the modern large-mouthed foldable and rectangular shaped rubber water bags so that the same may be readily hung from an hook or otherwise from thet wallagainst which the bag is designed to res l The object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive form of bag support that is adapted to be readily adjusted to either one of two positions, one for supporting a bag when containing water and the other a collapsed position desired when the bag is empty and whereby l5 ithe same may be folded and rolled up for packng. I

As will be observed the hanger frame comprises but two cooperative parts adjustably connected together so that the said parts may be 20 readily shifted from a so-called closed position to that of an open position and vice versa. The supporting frame as will be seen comprises but two parts, one a special design of sheet metal back and the other an adjustable rectangular 25 wire frame that can readily be shifted from a horizontal to a hanging vertical position with respect to the back and again from the vertical to the horizontal for the purpose of opening and closing the supported bag.

30 The above objects are accomplished by means of the improved bag hanger supporting frame, disclosed in the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification wherein like characters of reference are used to designate similar 35 parts throughout the specification and drawing and in which Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of my present invention in an extended position with an open water bag, broken away, attached.

40 Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of the supporting frame shown in Fig. 1 with bag, broken away, attached, and

Fig. 3 shows a further perspective view of my supporting frame and its attached water bag in 45 a folded and closed position.

Referring now to the characters of reference marked upon the several figures of the drawing above referred to, l2 represents the back which is in the nature of a wall plate having an opening 0 I3 therein to receive a hook fastened to the wall and whereby the sheet metal back may be supported. This back is formed of one piece of sheet metal and is of a general elongated shape having a relatively straight bottom edge adjacent to which 55 are two aligned slots l4-l4 arranged horizonprovided with an elongated hole I9 to receive the 10 side portions 2020 of a rectangular shaped wire frame which includes a back member 2 l that lays close against the rear face of the back l2 when the frame is extended, as in Figs. 1 and 2, to sup port the rectangular frame in an extended horizontal position. In order to provide a further and cooperative supporting means for the frame when extended, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, I provide a reverse bend 22 in each of the side members of the wire adjacent to where it passes through the holes I9 in the flange [8 which bend, as will be seen, produces a shoulder that prevents the wire from sliding back and insures it retaining a horizontal position. The forward ends of the side wires are bent in to form short stub spindle ends 23. to receive the end portions of the tubular roller 24 to which the front edge portion 25 of the rubber bag I6 is secured, preferably as by vulcanizing.

The rectangular frame is thereby slidably connected to the back and readily permits of the front portion thereof being raised together with the front portion of the bag, and then slid back, the side members of the frame moving down through the holes l9 until the stub ends 23 of the frame and the front bag attaching roller rests upon the flanges I 8, and the remaining portion of the wire frame is suspended in substantially a vertical position somewhat like that shown in Fig. 3, the rear top edge of the bag being still supported from the back while the front top edge is supported from the roller, on the stub ends of the frame. This raising movement of the front of the frame, which carries the bag upward and backward serves to cause the bag to first fold inward along its vertically creased lines 26 and then inward against the back of the bag.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A supporting frame for water bags compris- 5o ing a fixed supporting back and a movable wire member, the fixed back member having opposed forwardly extended brackets 'with holes therethrough, said movable member including a front,

a rear and side portions, the latter being threaded through said holes and having shoulders engaging said brackets, and the rear portion of said movable member being adapted to engage the rear face of the back to hold the frame in a forwardly extended horizontal position,

2 A supporting device for water bags, formed of two parts, one a fixed member having means for the attachment of a water bag thereto and the other a movable frame member, the fixed member comprising a back adapted to be attached to a sidewall and including forwardly disposed brackets having outwardly inclined lugs with holes therethrough, the movable frame member having side members with offset portions and being slidably supported in said holes, a bag attaching member comprising the forward portion of the frame, the said frame being adjustable relative to said brackets to permit the frame to be shifted from a horizontal to a vertical position and vice versa, and said offset portions serving to cooperate with said inclined lugs to maintain said frame in a detachable interlocked engagement therewith when said frame is in a horizontal position;

3. A supporting device for water bags formed of two parts, one a fixed and the other a movable member, the fixed member comprising a back having elongated bag attaching slots and forwardly extended brackets with opposed lugs and having holes through its end lugs, the movable member comprising a rectangular frame the side portions of which are offset and are threaded through the said holes, the back of the frame adapted to engage the rear face of the back for supporting the frame in a horizontal position, the frame including a rotatable cross member for the attachment of a bag in hinged relation to the frame, the said frame together with an attached bag being thus adapted to be raised and slid back and down to collapse the bag and rest upon the back.

4. A supporting device for water bags formed of two parts, one a fixed and the other a movable member, the fixed member comprising a back having slots therein for the attachment of the top edge portion of a water bag and having for- 2,21s,93o I wardly disposed brackets with holes therethrough, said movable member being slidably mounted in the holes of said brackets and having a front cross portion comprising a rotatable member to which the front top edge portion of a bag is attached so that said top portion of the bag may readily be raised and carried up and over to rest upon the brackets while the rear top portion of the bag remains stationary, fixed to the back.

5. A supporting device for water bags comprising a fixed sheet metal member and a movable Wire frame member, the fixed member comprising a back for attachment to a sidewall and having forwardly disposed brackets with holes therethrough, the movable wire frame member being rectangular in form and whose side members are supported in the holes of the' bracket, the forward ends of the side members being turned in at substantially right angles to form supporting pintles, a tubular member rotatably mounted on said pintles between the side members for the attachment of the front edge portion of a water bag, another portionof which is attached to the fixed back to support the bag in a suspended position, said wire frame being movably connected through the holes in the brackets to permit the frame to be shifted from a horizontal to a vertical position and vice versa.

6. A portable supporting device comprising a fixed back and a movable member, said back provided with opposed forwardly extended brackets, the movable member comprising a rectangular Wire frame including a front, rear and side portions, the latter portions being supported by said brackets while the rear portion of said wire frame is engaged against the rear face of the back to hold the frame in a forwardly extended horizontal position, the side portions having intermediate shoulders for engagement with said brackets to prevent endwise movement of said frame when in a horizontal position, and means for supporting a rectangular shaped bag at the rear lower end of said back and the forward end of said frame.

ALLAN C. HOFFMAN. 

